Google could be forced to sell Chrome in a big antitrust crackdown
The Department of Justice hopes a Chrome sale would help dent some of Google's search dominance
The Department of Justice may push for Google to sell off its Chrome browser in an effort to break up the tech giant’s dominance of the search engine market.
Hopefully we're going to see at the very least the reduction of government sticking their noses where they don't belong.
Well that is true although in the case of Google (and some of the Big Tech companies) the government was asleep in their duty to oversee what is taking place.
Antitrust regulators are recommending a Chrome sale given that it’s the most widely used browser worldwide and a critical way that users access Google’s search engine, Bloomberg reported, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter. This follows an August ruling by a federal judge that found Google violated antitrust laws by monopolizing the online search engine market and pushing out competitors such as DuckDuckGo and Microsoft’s Bing.
Lee-Anne Mulholland, vice president of regulatory affairs at Google, said in a statement that “the DOJ continues to push a radical agenda that goes far beyond the legal issues in this case.”
“The government putting its thumb on the scale in these ways would harm consumers, developers and American technological leadership at precisely the moment it is most needed,” Mulholland said.
While pushing such a sale would be a major move by regulators, it is a scaling back of earlier options considered by the officials, including forcing Google to sell off its Android business, Bloomberg reports. In addition to a Chrome sale, the DOJ is also expected to request certain requirements of the tech giant’s artificial intelligence and Android smartphone operating system, as well as to impose data licensing requirements, according to Bloomberg.
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Google is slowly losing its grip over the tech world. From their Playstore having to not allow other store apps to now chrome wow